>James Bond is a Gary Stu is she right?

Yes

only recently bond has a weakness and it's not even physical

Meh, kind of, but not really.
There is a difference between a character being good at something and being a marry sue

>>8595725
He's a projected fantasy of the writer, an ideal of masculinity. So if that's a Gary Stu to you, sure. But I thought Stus and Sues were supposed to be bland and have a "default" personality. James Bond has a striking personality.

>>8595725
Lots of heroes are, mary/garu stu is a meme criticism and she shouldn't bother,

In the movies, yes. In the books, no.

>>8595725
It's true but 99% of genre fiction is cheap wish fulfillment or some nerd's faggy fantasy anyway.

>>8595725
Oh 100%, he is a Gary Stu. But that doesn't cheapen the literary value of the character or the fiction unless you are an edgy sperglord.

>>8597426
>james bond
>literary value
what the fuck

>>8595725
A Mary Sue is more than just a seemingly perfect character.
A Mary Sue is a stupidly capable NEW character introduced into an already established universe through fan fiction (or at least poorly conceived continuations).

James Bond is himself the defining characteristic of the JB universe, so he is not a Mary Sue/Gary Stu.

A Mary Sue in James Bond would be something like a very young character who just graduated from secret agent school with a better score than JB himself when he graduated.

A very recent example of a Mary Sue is Rey from Star Wars; she was inserted into an already established universe, and has even greater potential powers than the original "great potential" character from the original universe.

>>8597621
>A Mary Sue is a stupidly capable NEW character introduced into an already established universe through fan fiction (or at least poorly conceived continuations).
Best definition I've seen yet. Especially since to BTFO of shitposters who call any character they don't like or identify with a Mary Sue

Yes he is one of the most blatant gary stus ever.
Remember a Mary Sue can have flaws but it doesn't count if they are obviously intended to be endearing.The intended audience for James Bond of course finds for example his philandering very endearing.
But whoever wrote the story understood to make him very alone as a character. If his mary-sueish greatness was constantly asserted in comparison to maybe a dim-witted black henchman, a lot fewer people would sympathize with him. That's why I hate Rey from TFA a lot more.

Kingsley Amis, in The James Bond Dossier, noted that although Bond is a very good shot and the best in the Secret Service, he is still beaten by the instructor, something that added realism to Bond's character.[81] Amis identified a number of skills where Bond is very good, but is still beatable by others. These included skiing, hand-to-hand combat, underwater swimming and golf.[82] Driving was also an ability Amis identified where Bond was good, but others were better;[82] one of those who is a better driver than Bond is Sir Hugo Drax, who causes Bond to write off his battleship-grey supercharged Bentley 4½ Litre.[83] Bond subsequently drives a Mark II Continental Bentley, which he uses in the remaining books of the series,[84] although he is issued an Aston Martin DB Mark III with a homing device during the course of Goldfinger.[84]

He is an escapist character, his Gary Stuness is fully intentional. Men love him and women want to be like him etc.

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>>8598404
You people have no idea what a Mary Sue is.

See >>8597621
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